Are bison and buffalo the same? Well, when settlers first visited the new world and witnessed bison, they thought they looked like the Cape buffalo and water buffalo from other parts of the world, so ...

By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which ... around the Cape of Africa and experiences in Asia. So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to ...

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ... How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large ...

And, of course, is it “Bison” or “Buffalo”? We asked authors, historians and professors to weigh in on some of the bigger questions from The American Buffalo.

The industry for buffalo hides made some White Americans rich, but it decimated the species as well as the Native American tribes whose lives depended on the bison. Vintage engraving showing ...